Television Before television was born

1876 Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone

1876 Thomas Alva Edison - audio recorder
1878 Thomas Alva Edison - commercial light bulb

Electromechanical television
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Recorder Display 1884 Paul Nipkow First Electromechanical television

Video Audio Electronic transmission of still pictures and

photographs over telegraph and telephone lines
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1894 Emile Berliner - vinyl record Audio
1897 Karl Ferdinand Braun - Cathode Video
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Electromechanical television
1925 John Logie Baird - grayscale images Video
in motion ,5 frame/sec 48-line resolution
1927 Baird also invented “Phonovision” the world's first video
recording system modulate output signal from TV camera down to
the audio range ( vinyl record )
1928 Baird demonstrated an electromechanical color television
Electromechanical television
1927 Baird set up the Baird Television Development Company
1904 Fritz Pfleumer - Magnetic tape Transmission
1928 Baird - eletromechanic broadcast the first transatlantic
television signal, between London and New York
1929 Baird - first experimental electromechanical television
service in Germany. but were without sound until 1934.
1931 Baird made the first remote control
1932 Baird demonstrate ultra-short wave transmission
(VHF) 15 frames per second 45-line resolutions
Electromechanical television
1936 BBC began broadcasting a dual-system
service between EMI's 405-line standard and
Baird's improved 240-line standard
1937 BBC select EMI's system. Baird's system was
dropped.
1938 Baird made the world's first color broadcast,120 line
The last mechanical television
broadcasts ended in 1939
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1904 Otto Lehmann discover Liquid Crystals
1906 Lee De Forest - Vaccum tube triode
1923 Vladimir Zworykin - Invent “Kinescope” (CRT) and
first electronic television use Kinescope
1925 Philo Farnsworth – Invent "image dissector" (CRT)
1925 Farnsworth develope all-electronic television system
using image dissector
1930 Zworykin was recruited by RCA to lead its television
development department.
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1932 EMI - develope “the Emitron “ (CRT) Video
1933 Zworykin improve extremely bright illumination of
image dissector become the “Iconoscope“(CRT)
1934 EMI - develope “the super-Emitron”(CRT)
1934 EMI - develope “CPS Emitron” (CRT)
1934 Zworykin shared some patent rights with the German
licensee company Telefunken. call “image iconoscope” (CRT)
1934 Telefunken manufacture The first commercially made
electronic television sets (Vacuum tube) with cathode ray tubes
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1937 Start use plate with zinc sulphide or selenide
1938 Werner Flechsig - “the shadow mask” color television
1939 RCA - develope “the orthicon”(CRT)
1940 Guillermo Camarena
"trichromatic field sequential system" color television
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1941 The United States implemented 525-line television
1943 ENIAC first general-purpose electronic computer, Vacuum tube
1944 RCA - develope “image orthicon”(CRT)
1946 Robinzon Kruzo - first full-length 3D movie ,Soviet Union
1947 RCA demonstrated the first all-electronic Video
color television system
1948 The first broadcast in 625-line standard
occurred in Moscow.
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1948 first Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania
1950 RCA - develope “Vidicon”(CRT Generation 2)
1951 Philips (Philo Farnsworth ) experiments and produces
Projection television
1951 Commercial color television broadcasts began on CBS
1951 RCA - develope “Chromatron”(CRT)
1951 Charles Ginsburg - video tape recorder onto magnetic tape
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1953 The television industry's National Television System
Committee (NTSC)developed a color television system that
was compatible with existing black and white receivers
1954 Texas Instruments had demonstrated all-transistor AM
1955 Sony's first transistor radio and first made in Japan.
1955 Harwell CADET - first fully transistor computer
1956 Ampex - invent first "quadruplex" videocassette recorder
1960 Television sets used exclusively vacuum
tube electronics had found reliability problems
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1961 Sony was a major Japanese vendor of black and white sets
1962 first live satellite signal to Britain from the United States was
broadcast via the Telstar satellite
1963 Walter Bruch invent PAL color system at Telefunken
1966 Sony develop Trinitron brand name for TV use Aperture Grille
based CRT. 25% brighter than common shadow mask
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1969 Sony - U-matic system videocassette recorder
1969 Analog HDTV - Sony & broadcaster NHK first developed
consumer high-definition television. The MUSE system but required
about twice the bandwidth of the existing NTSC system
1970 Hoffmann LaRoche discover the twisted nematic field effect
0f liquid crystal
1970 Philips developed a home videocassette format. VCR ( Video
Cassette Recording)
1970 solid-state electronics appeared and quickly
displaced vacuum tubes in color TVs
1970 Analog comb filters first introduced on high-end sets
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1971 the first year that sales of color TVs in the US exceeded B&W TV
1972 the FCC began requiring UHF tuners in all TVs sold in the
United States.
1973 Sharp produce first liquid-crystal product, a pocket calculator,
1974 Trinicon (Vidicon) is a registered trademark of Sony
1975 Sony's Betamax - home videocassette tape recording format
1976 JVC's VHS (Video Home System)
1976 Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical
digital audio disc
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1976 Saticon (Vidicon) is a registered trademark of Hitachi
1978 Philips produced the LaserDisc players
1978 first Sony Walkman cassette player
1979 Philips Introduce Compact Disc
1980 The first electronic remote controls
1980 Plumbicon (Vidicon) is a registered trademark of Philips
1983 ITU set up a working party (IWP11/6) with the aim of setting
a single international HDTV standard.
1986 HDCD technology was developed
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1988 The first LCD TVs were introduced by Sharp
1990 3-line digital comb filters appeared on high-end TVs
composite and S-video inputs began appearing
1992 Sony's MiniDisc data compressed using ATRAC format
1992 Fujitsu introduced the world's first 21-inch full-color plasma
display
1992 JPEG standard created by ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee
1993 The VCD standard was created by Sony, Philips,
Matsushita, and JVC (MPEG1)
1993 MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio) - designed by the Moving
Picture Experts Group as part of its MPEG-1 standard
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1994 USB development a group of seven companies: Compaq, DEC,
IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Nortel , USB 1.0 released 1996
1994 DVB-S,DVB-C created by Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
encode MPEG-2 (MPEG transport stream)
1995 DVD invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and
Time Warner ,encode MPEG-2 (MPEG program stream)
1996 first CRT flat display "Zeus Display" by philips
1997 HDCAM, HD version of Digital Betacam (like MJPEG)
1997 DVB-T - DVB European create standard for the
broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television
1997 AAC - has been standardized by ISO,IEC as part of the MPEG-2,4
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1998 FD Trinitron/WEGA - Sony's flat version of the Trinitron 2004 The first commercial LED backlit LCD TV was the Sony Qualia
picture tube. 005 ,also use RGB LED
1998 First Sony CRT HDTV 2004 Sony ‘s Trinitron ending production in Japan
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1999 Super Audio CD developed

by Sony and Philips
2000 Trek Technology and IBM began selling the first
USB flash drives
2000 Sony/Philips - The first “DVR Blue prototypes” (Blu-ray) were 2005 DVB-S2 introduction of HDTV and H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) video
unveiled at the CEATEC exhibition , encode VC-1, H.264, and MPEG-2 codec

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2000 Digital HDTV broadcasting started in Japan as ISDB-S 2006 Sony – First Bravia KDL-46X2000 with BRAVIA ENGINE EX has
feature Live Colour Creation 30% wider color than conventional LCD
2002 First-generation liquid crystal WEGA. Use signal processing
technology to reproduce NTSC signals while retaining advanced 2007 DVD recorder initially popularized by the Pioneer
picture quality. and Apple SuperDrive
2007 Sony BRAVIA W-Series
2002 The HDMI Founders KDL-52W4100 ,Bravia Engine 2 had
began development on addtion feature Motionflow 120Hz
HDMI 1.0 technology
2003 ISO/IEC introduce 2008 DVB upgraded DVB-T standard to
H.264(MPEG-4 AVC) standard DVB-T2
2004 first HD Lcd TV by 2008 Sony introduce first Edge LED
sony KDL-40XBR2 lighting TV KLV-40ZX1M
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2009 Analog television broadcasting in the United States
ended on June 12
2009 DVB-C2 -Performance of the second generation DVB cable
transmission system to get so close to the theoretical Shannon-limit
Jan 2010 Samsung began selling
the first 3D ready TV UN55C7000 and
first 3D Blu-ray player BD-C6900
Jan 2010 Monsters vs. Aliens 3D – First set-top box is a device that connects to a television and
Blu-ray 3D movie an external source of signal , turning the signal into
2010 DVB established CM-3DTV group to content which is then displayed on the television screen
prepare commercial requirements for or other display device
3DTV delivery standards.

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2009 Samsung and yahoo develope Internet@TV (medi@ 2.0) The signal source might be VHF or UHF antenna ,
connect internet to your Television - Now call Samsung Apps with a satellite dish ,a coaxial cable ,
feature download applications telephone line (including DSL connections),
june 2010 sony update firmware for Playstation 3 system to an ethernet cable or a Broadband over Power Line
support stereoscopic 3D
may 2010 Sony announced Cable Converter Box
releasing Google-enabled Sony 1972 Every US television receivers to be able to tune the
Internet TV product entire VHF and UHF range, UHF converter onto low-VHF channels
for viewing
1980 Cable television represented a possible alternative
to deployment of UHF converters as broadcasts could be
frequency-shifted to VHF channels
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integrated receiver/decoders (IRDs)
digital set-top boxes
for receiving digital television broadcasts on TV sets that do not
have a built in digital tuner.
1994 DVB-S DVB-C , 1997 DVB-T , 2002 DVB-IPTV
Old set-top boxes and digital televisions are not capable of decoding
the protocol DVB-T2 required for terrestrial High-definition .
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2005 DVB-S2 , 2008 DVB-T2 , 2009 DVB-C2
digital video recorder (DVR)
records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive ,
SD memory card or other mass storage device (local or networked).
1988 Hard-disk based digital video recorders make the "time
shifting" feature
2002 The first DVR which had a built-in Commercial skipping
feature

set-top box
integrated receiver/decoders (IRDs)
digital video recorder (DVR)
2003 many Satellite and Cable providers introduced dual-tuner
digital video recorders , The main use for this feature is the
capability to record a live program while watching another live
program simultaneously or to record two programs at the same
time, possibly while watching a previously recorded one.
2006 DVD-based PVRs
Hybrid IPTV Set-Top Boxes
A hybrid set-top allows traditional TV broadcast (from terrestrial,
satellite, or cable providers) to be brought together with video
delivered over the Internet, and with personal multimedia content.
VOD and time-shifting TV